ChannelVision has opened the early bird window for submitting for 2025 Visionary Spotlight Award (VSAs).
Cost per entry is $500 for consideration for this annual spotlight, which honors excellence among companies, their programs, products and services in the channel.
Editors from Beka Business Media as well as a panel of judges from independent industry resources will award nominations based on a set of evaluation criteria including overall innovation, future industry impact of the nominated product or service, creativity and feature set differentiation, and ease of use and interoperability. VSA winners tend to exemplify the communications industry and its overall, rapid innovation and growth, with winning entries showing off a slew of opportunities for channel partners to boost their roles as trusted providers for business success.
This year’s VSA winners will be recognized as part of the May / June 2025 issue of ChannelVision (print and digital), a dedicated Visionary Spotlight Awards issue (print and digital), press releases, online spotlights and, in many cases, targeted CV TV interviews.
Awardees will be honored for success spanning three categories:
- Overall Excellence –
- Best Customer Service 2025
- Best Emerging Technology Breakthrough 2025
- Best Service Delivery Team 2025
- Channel Deployment of the Year 2025
- Channel Program of the Year 2025
- CSP Communications Deployment of the Year 2025
- CSP Network Infrastructure Innovation of the Year 2025
- Digital Transformation Award 2025
- Top Innovation Award 2025
- Business Technology –
- 5G / LTE*
- AI Implementation
- Best International Internet Solution
- Conferencing
- Contact Center / CCaaS
- Cloud Computing
- Cybersecurity
- Edge Computing*
- End User Portal
- Enterprise Mobility
- Hosted PBX
- International Deployments
- IoT / M2M
- Managed Services
- Multi-Location Deployments
- Private Line
- SaaS and Cloud Applications
- SASE*
- SD-WAN and SD-Branch
- SIP Trunking
- Software-Defined Interconnection
- Unified Communications / UCaaS
- Vertical Markets and Deployments
- Video Conferencing
- Wi-Fi and Fixed Wireless
- Service Provider Technology –
- Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Back Office and OSS Innovation
- Cloud Computing and Data Center Innovation
- Content / Media Delivery and Enablement
- Emerging Markets Deployment
- Green Communications Deployment
- Most Responsive Supplier Channel Team
- OTT Applications
- Partner Portal
- Remote Monitoring & Management (RMM) / Professional Services Automation (PSA)*
- Rural and Underserved Connectivity
- Software-Defined Networking (SDN) / Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
- Telecom Legal / Regulatory
- Wholesale Broadband and Capacity
“Our 2025 Visionary Spotlight Award winners will again be chosen for visionary excellence, as well as for achievements in outstanding products, services and technological advancements, spanning all categories,” said ChannelVision founder and owner, Berge Kaprelian. “Last year, we saw a record number of nominations come in. I can proudly say that all of our VSA recipients made outstanding strides that warranted distinction. I have no doubt this year will be no different.”
The early bird submission period – which costs $500 per entry – ends Mon., Mar. 31, 2025. To get started, click here and follow the individual registration options for Overall Excellence, Business Technology and Service Provider Technology.
For more information, contact ChannelVision managing editor, Brady Hicks, brady@bekabusinessmedia.com or 215.915.3471.
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* Denotes new VSA award.
